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Definition of Henri rousseau
1. Noun. French primitive painter (1844-1910).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Henri Rousseau
Literary usage of Henri rousseau
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets by Marsden Hartley (1921)
"... henri rousseau NOT long since, we heard much of naivete—it was the fashion
among the schools and the lesser individuals to use this term in describing ..."
2. Cubists and Post-impressionism by Arthur Jerome Eddy (1914)
"... and one whose work is wholly different, henri rousseau, the custom house
employee who painted without instruction; later, but also conspicuously, ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1911)
"On the 4th, henri rousseau, an eccentric French painter, known as " le primitif
moderne," and a leader of the " Post-Impressionists." On the 5th, aged 79, ..."
4. Idling in Italy: Studies of Literature and of Life by Joseph Collins (1920)
"It is difficult now to believe that Ce'zanne, Courbet, Renoir, Picasso, Henri
Rousseau, Gaugin, Van Gogh, and the school of impressionists and ..."
5. Paris by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1887)
"... the XV. c. sepulchral bas-relief of henri rousseau, advocate of Parliament ;
a XVI. c. statue of S. Landry ; and a pretended statue of Charlemagne, ..."